Figs. 3. and 4. represent the plan and elevation of a moderately sized house in the suburbs of Vicenza. It was built by Palladio in a line situation for Signor Al merle° ; it has been much admired, and Mereworth cas tle in Kent was built upon the same model by Colin Campbell in 1723; the four vestibules have a line effect, and the circular hall, with four entrances, is simple and elegant. In a square of 80 or 90 feet, four large, and an equal number of smaller apartments, may be obtained upon one floor ; there is plenty of space for domestic offices below, and the same for bed-rooms above the principal story ; the small triangular stairs without light, are objectionable ; but as they are only for communicat ing with bed-rooms, the inconveniency is the less ; those to the lower story may have borrowed lights.
Figs. 5. and 6. represent the plan and elevation of a villa designed by Palladio upon the Brenta, for Sicur Moconico, a Venetian noblemen; it consists of a square encompassing a court, in which is a peristyle consisting of two heights of columns, the lower of the Ionic, the upper of the Corinthian order. From each external angle of the square is projected a circular portico, which connects with the offices. The principal entrance has a bold projecting portico of eight columns of the Com posite order, 40 feet in height, and crowned with a pe diment ; behind the columns are pilasters 2 feet broad and 15 inches thick, which support an open gallery at the height of the principal story. In the middle of each external side there is a porch or loggia, formed each by four columns and two pilasters, standing in a line with the outer wall ; these rise also to the height of the side walls, and are crowned with pediments. In the back front eight semi-columns are attached to the wall. On this side of the square there is a saloon or occus 60 feet long and 30 feet broad, which is divided by two rows of eight columns each ; over this, in the upper story, is a ball of the same dimensions, but without columns. The prin
cipal stair is in the peristyle of the inner court, on the side opposite to the great entrance. This edifice is in the style of the most magnificent Italian villas, and being the work of the ablest architect which that country has produced, must be admitted as a perfect specimen; the elegance of the elevation, however, appears injured by the smallness of the windows, and by the height being divided by a clumsy cornice ; the roof also appears too heavy for the general airiness of character, and the ele vations of the ends of the wings or offices are much too mean.
Although our limits will not permit us to adduce more specimens of the Italian architecture, we shall, in order to afford the reader a more comprehensive view of the rapid and extensive progress which the Roman archi tecture made in the course of two centuries, subjoin a list of the most celebrated Italian architects, with a state ment of the principal works in which they were engaged.
Furro IlnuxELLEseni, born 1377, died 1444. His works and designs were as follow: Church of Santa Maria del Fioro, at Florence.
Sagrcsty, and great part of the church of St Lorenzo. The Capitol° de Pazzi in Santa Croce.
The Church Degli Angoli, an octagon, for the family Dcgli Scolari.
Model of the palace for Cosmo de Medici.
The palace Pitti, up to the second row of windows. Modcl of the Casa de Busini.
Alodcl of the house and loggia degli Innocenti.
The portico of the I fospital de Contalescenti. Continuation of the Palazzo de Capitani.
A villa out of the gate of St Nicholas, for M. Luca Pitti, Abbey of the Canons regular of Ficsole.